all things lovely...

I hope you have all had a good xmas, mine was filled with the kids being excited and loud and just the odd moment of silence. I love xmas a time just for family to relax and enjoy x Mind you ot seemed to of flown past, i cant quite believe that this is the last night of 2011. I will have a few glasses of sparkling wine to see the new year in, but not too many as i have to go to work for 8 in the morning.
This morning though i had a most lovely surprise, a surprise because i had forgotten about it.  A little parcel came through the letter box for me.... i was thinking what have i got recently, how i could of forgotten i dont know but here is what i got..

This lovely little parcel which had a  lovely little box inside. It was posted by Janis at Giraffe Jewellery.. she makes some lovely pieces of jewellery you must pop by and say hello, please do say that i sent you as i mentioned to her that i would blog about her. I love the fact that she wrapped her box in Giraffe patterned paper.

You can catch her website on her card..

and this is the lovely piece that i had decided to buy, i fell in love with it as soon as i saw it a seed pod piece which has a green amber stone in it, i do love natural stone in my jewellery...i dont buy jewellery very often, but this piece just stood out, love it so thankyou Janis for sending out so quicky x x

Also today i finished off a commission piece.

It was a pink gingham elephant for a little girl who is going to have her first birthday. The customer had already brought one of my blue elephants for her nephew with his name on for xmas and he loved it so thought of me again for her friends little girl. This pink elephant has also had a name put on ..Nelly.

Its so nice to have customers return to buy your makes, hopefully Nelly will be pleased with it too..I now have 1 blue chequered left so lets hope he founds a new home soon too.

Happy new year to all, its been a great year being a blogger ive had my ups and downs and its been so nice having all your support and loving advice. I will have a toast to all of you. Come on 2012 its got to be a better year then i have just had x x  goodbye for now and i will see you all in 2012 x  x ps if i havent said it already THANKYOU  xxx

Liebster Award

Liebster Award

I have been very lucky to be given an award by  Jo at Through the keyhole, sorry tried to link but somehow its not qiute working, Jo also does a blog called The Good Life so why not go and pay her a visit.

The Liebster award is awarded to blogs with less than one hundred followers, and comes with a couple of rules.

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog.

2. Thank the giver(s) and link back to them.

3. Choose five blogs which you would like to pass the award on to and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

There are so many wonderful blogs out there to choose from. On this occasion I'd like to pass the award on to the following five blogs  

1. A little birdie told me
2. Dotty's blog
3. Country rabbit
4. Coco rose
5. Felted house

if you havent already popped by then please do and say that i have sent you x
Thats it for now, but i will be back soon x
                             

shopaholics

just another quick post for advice, i have an email from Janel from shopaholic, have any of you heard about this also named become.co.uk. not sure if i should look into further or whether it is a no go area eg virus etc please let me know x x

chester the cat

This is a special little post just for the felted house.
This is my boy Chester he has white little paws too, as you can see he likes to get into the strangest of places, in this case my shredded paper that i use for my hens xx

Christmas time!

Wow hasnt xmas come round quickly. Im so not ready yet, so much more to do. Xmas presents still to get, xmas cake still to ice, that can wait a couple more days though as i have just topped it up with more brandy ohh i cant wait to have a slice..  i do love a piece of xmas cake especially when its homemade.  I still have some more decs to put up, every year we all sit down and have a dable of making our own paper chains, they always seem to be much nicer then the foil ones, and they are recycable, which we all like.
I have one more xmas fayre to do this weekend. This one is going to be held in the church in the village which will also be  holding the festival of light so all the xmas trees will be in and all lit up. Fab it will be the first fayre the church has done so im really looking forward to it, but i must remember to wrap up warm as the weather here has become really cold and chilly. Talking about xmas fayres i popped to the church in the village down the road called Chippenham. I went last year and it was so cosy and xmasy, so i had to go back again this year. I wasnt let down as it was just as good this year, traffic was queued up on both sides of the street. I was also suprised to bump into a fellow blogger, i have never come across her before but she was a lovely lady, my son and daughter loved her jewellery. It wasnt expensive and it had a slight twist as my son got a necklace which was made out of old bottle caps and my daughter brought a lovely bracelet made with buttons. So when i got home i had a look at her blog, why not pop by and say hello you will find her at www.1hungryhippie@blogspot.com 

Xmas Fayre

Before i start i must apologise for the darkness of the photos as the barn it self was in quite a low light.
My first proper Xmas Fayre was this weekend and ohh i felt excited if not rather nervous..
But hey i shouldnt of been, as it turned out rather lovely.
The Fayre was in a barn at a farm in the village, the same farm where we get our strawberries.  The owners were raising money for a charity called Becken, this charity is set up to build a school in Africa (i think) so far they have brought the land, but this needs alot of work to clear the area before they make a start on the building. Anyway back to the fayre, there was alot of people who turned up and the atmosphere was lovely. I decided to do this event with a few friends. One of them you may know was Zoe at Scented Sweetpeas, Zoe didnt have enough items for her own table so a couple of us shared her makes between us. For all of you who may not know her, she makes the most wonderful  felt Hairclips, hairbands, brooches and the odd xmas dec's, please do drop by and see her and say hello.
Also there were 3 more friends Louise who decorated some  fab candles and  also she did some flower arrangements, Lorraine who made some fabulous silver jewellery, she had some lovely pieces with fingerprints and footprints on them.

Here is the lovely Lorraine, sorry i have no close ups of her lovely Jewellery.

And lastly there was Jackie, she has been very busy making some lovely handmade clay xmas decorations in all different colours reds, blues, whites etc and they all have some sweet little sayings, pictures or items on them, like the lovely white westie and her fab gingerbread men.

Say hello to Jackie...

And last but not least Moi !

I had lots of different things for sale on my stall my hens, snails, elephants in blue and in pink, doorstops, egg cosies, lavender bags etc Alot of people came and went and overall i had a brilliant time, all of us made a little profit after taking the cost of the table off (which wasnt too much at £5.00) so we were all happy little bunnies. I managed to sell 1 doorstop, 1 blue elephant, lavender bags, 2 snails and 2 crocheted cats. I had also made these for the occassion even though this time i didnt sell any i will try again at another fayre in december which will be in the church. If they still dont go then i might just have to put them onto my own tree which to be honest i really wouldnt mind, i love homemade decorations on the tree.

I also had a lot of fun making these heart keyrings too.

So as you can see i have been a busy little bee in my spare time.

I had one more little surprise this afternoon i popped round to my little sisters as it was here birthday and low and behold between her and her partner they brought 5 of my hens ( which was all of them ) 1 doorstop and one of my fabric baskets, how surprised was i, she even suggested making up a little booklet with my items so she could show them off to all her friends to see if she could get more sales. What a great idea why didnt i come up with that one, i mean word by mouth is how it goes! isnt it...

I think i may be busy, what do you think oh nearly forgot to tell you a local lady who had her stall next to me said she might be interested in having some of my items on a sale and return basis hopefully in a studio she is hoping to set up in her house in the new year, you know im so taken back in the kind words people have to say especially when you have put in so much work into each piece of work. Im so looking forward now to the next fayre which will be in the church as it will be full of xmas trees, Yes the festival of light will be on at the same time, Oh i do love this time of year..

Thankyou for coming by and reading this xmasy post as usual i shall now take some time out to read some of your lovely posts x  x x

Hello!

Hello, i thought i had better update you all as i have been away for a few weeks. Busy busy busy. If its not one thing its another.

Thankyou to all of you who put your kinds thoughts regarding hubby. Im glad to say that he is now hopefully fully recovered and all spot/ rashes have now gone. He has got to go back to hospital just to get his eye checked shortly but im sure that it will be fine. I still dont believe in what the docters said at the last hospital appointment and as he no longer has any spots/rashes i believe my judgement even more.

What else have i been up to, well i went to see the film 'Wreckers' with Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch. I must say firstly that you may not of heard of this film as it hasnt been released yet. Wreckers was filmed  the village where i live and one part was even filmed in my mother in laws house even with their cat Mozart who isnt with us anymore. There was very mixed feelings about this film with the local audience. Yes the film was dark in colour and in the script and yes you would have to watch it from the beginning to the end or you would lose your place, but you know i do like Clare Foy and i dont mind watching film that is a bit on the different side. Now this film will be out in a select few cinemas and also in December you should be able to see it through your internet on the computer. If you still want to see it, it will be on dvd i think in Febuary.

 If you want to see a snipet then you can here...... 

What do you think- interesting?

Heres Claire Foy talking about the film..

Well enough as im rambling.

This week while out for a walk with the kids we came across this little fellow.

He was sitting in the door way of the church. He was the size of my hand, abit strange that he was out in the day time as they are nocturnal, but i could see him get knocked down by a car so i gently picked him up in some leaves and moved him into a leafy part of the churchyard.

A day later i read an article about hedgehoges and if you find any this time of year, If they are too small, what you feed them etc. Well it also said if you see them in the daytime then you should be concerned. How awful did i feel knowing that prehaps there was something wrong and i just tucked him away..thinking that i was doing the right thing in not interfering. Fingers crossed he will be ok.

I have also been making some more bits and bobs ready for this weekends Xmas Fayre, i shall post some pics when i have some better light, dont know about you but the last few days have been very grey and dull.

Any way i shall go and catch up with some of you and then do abit more crochet x x

Hope you all have a good night x

BYE xx